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3:49 PM

love my lists

Posted by Terri |

I'm a list girl. I have lists all over the house. Grocery lists, lists for things I have to do that day, that week, that month, supper lists...So of course, I have a list for the work we're doing in the back addition this month. I am determined to at least have a bathroom by the new year. Or at least a toilet.

My lists can be adjusted, I'm not so anal that they are written in stone. Which is a good thing because we're already a little behind. We were supposed to be mudding all the drywall screw holes and papering all the edges and corners this week. We were also supposed to be finishing putting up the drywall, but we ran out of drywall sheets. So instead of doing what was on the list, I was emailing and calling around for a truck or trailer large enough to put drywall into. Thank goodness for friends that we haven't seen in months that don't mind us mooching their truck.

I did get most of the bathroom door primed and painted. I'm pretty happy with it - it looks great and you can't tell where the door holes were unless you're looking really hard. Hopefully this week I'll be able to get the coats painted...it is on the list of things to do.

I did put in all the Schlutter Kerdi and I am pretty stinkin' proud of myself. If you don't know what it is - it's messy and time consuming, that's what it is. It's basically an orange membrane that you mortar onto your shower walls, floor, curb...anywhere water will hit. If you have a leak in between your tiles, the kerdi membrane will keep the water in and the water will just flow down to your drain, because you've kerdied the crap out of everything. I think it took me 8 hours give or take. I could kind of stand up straight when I was done...

We also put down the in floor heating wires. Well, the Man did that while I went out with the girls. I didn't thoroughly research everything like I usually do and didn't realize that I needed to prime the floor before we put self leveling compound down so that the compound can meld to the floor, gah, so the heating cables were down when I rolled on the primer. I hope that's okay, I don't want to invest all this work just so my tiles can crack!

8:32 PM

How to lock the bathroom door

Posted by Terri |

We have been busy beavers this weekend. Even with the Roller Derby World Cup streaming live from Toronto!! I wish I had been able to get tickets, but this reno just sucks the money out of our bank account.

We've created a game plan for the next few weeks. We would have LOVED it if we had been able to finish this back addition before winter hit, but we now know we're really slow workers. And man, it's going to look good!!

I've been online looking at pocket door privacy locks. There isn't much out there that is affordable.

There's the ugly round ones

The bulky square and rectangle ones



The really crazily expensive ones that I don't think are worth it for a bathroom door

Halliday Baillie Locks

And the one that we're going to use. Mid range. Looks good enough but not too ugly.

Linnea Solid Brass Mortise Pocket Door Privacy Latch

I'm reusing our old bathroom door. 


It's solid wood and still in good shape and I plan on painting it white cause, you know, paint hides a multitude of sins. There was an issue though. When I printed off the template for any of the privacy locks, the previous door holes were too far from the edge and none of the new locks would have covered them up. What to do?

I found a great answer on yahoo answers.

I filled in the mortise area with a similar sized piece of wood and glued it in. After it set, I filled in any area that the wood didn't fill and shoved as much wood filler in there as possible. Sand, prime and paint. I make it sound so easy. Could be because I'm still at the sand and refill section...

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